- Competing, cooperating, deciding: towards a model of deliberative debate
- Edited by Adelino Cattani, Bruno Mastroianni
Improving Argumentative Skills in Education: Three Online Discussion Tools
- Jan Albert van Laar
- © 2021 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-329-1.09
How can we foster sound argumentation and valid criticism in education? How to help students to avoid fallacies, resist polarization, respond wisely to misleading information, and how to make them produce arguments that are genuinely responsive to the position of those they address? I sketch a dialogical account of the nature of sound argument and criticism. Then, I discuss two types of argumentative dialogue: persuasion dialogue and negotiation dialogue. Finally, I explain how software applications provide an opportunity for students to analyse, evaluate and produce arguments, and to critically think about the design of discussion procedures. I also discuss a third software application that enables teachers and advanced students to themselves design online discussion procedures, so as to experiment with them and to advance their understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of various design choices. This paper support the idea that students’ argumentative skills will be enhanced by letting them engage in the online discussion procedures presented.
- Keywords:
- Argumentation Theory,
- debate,
- education,
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Improving Argumentative Skills in Education: Three Online Discussion Tools
Authors
Jan Albert van Laar
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-329-1.09
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2021
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© 2021 Author(s)
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Book Title
Competing, cooperating, deciding: towards a model of deliberative debate
Editors
Adelino Cattani, Bruno Mastroianni
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
168
Publication Year
2021
Copyright Information
© 2021 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-329-1
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978-88-5518-328-4
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978-88-5518-329-1
Series Title
Communication and Philosophical Cultures. Researches and Instruments
Series ISSN
2975-1152
Series E-ISSN
2975-1233